A Blue and White Porcelain Jar

CHOSON PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A Blue and White Porcelain Jar
Choson Period (18th century)
Of lantern form with raised ring foot and upright circular neck, decorated in medium and dark underglaze cobalt-blue with four large roundels of flowers within double-line borders: a banana tree; pinks, orchid and rock; bamboo and plum; and chrysanthemums, orchid and rock; the collar encircled by a collar of clouds and the foot by a single line; the jar also applied with a transparent glaze, foot rim unglazed
12¾in. (32.5cm.) high; 12 1/8in. (31cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For another jar see Richo koki sometsuke/Blue and White of the Latter Yi Dynasty, Korea, exh. cat. (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1989), pl. 28; Rhee Byung-chang, Richo toji/Yi Ceramics in Kankoku bijutsu shusen/Masterpieces of Korean Art (Tokyo: Privately published, 1978), no. 223; Richo toji gohyakunen no bi/Glory of Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1987), pl. 97.

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